I want to experiment with Operating systems on my old computer but i dunno where to start. Ive already tried Ubuntu.
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Anonymous2006-02-08 9:22
Backtrack <3
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Anonymous2006-02-08 9:40
Try FreeBSD or PCBSD.
By the way what do you mean when you say you've "tried" Ubuntu? Have you used it for a few months, or have you just installed it, clicked a few buttons, shrugged and said "now what?"
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Melodic Chaos2006-02-08 10:54
Ive messed aboout with it for about a month and a half
There are quite a few other OS's you can try. TRON, QNX, ReactOS, Plan9, Hurd, AmigaOS (dead!), BeOS (also dead!), OpenVMS (almost dead!), yadda yadda.
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Anonymous2006-02-08 17:39
Oh, wait, OpenVMS won't work on an x86 PC. DEAD DEAD DEAD!
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Anonymous2006-02-08 18:20
>>7 TRON, QNX, ReactOS, Plan9, Hurd
I support this selection
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Anonymous2006-02-09 3:28
OpenVMS works on Itanium. And if you don't want to spend the obscene amount of money required for one of those, you can get an Alpha or even a VAX off ebay.
Hurd isn't an OS, it's a failed attempt at a microkernel.
Plan9 seems pretty groovy but having installed it on my computer at work during one of my slacking off sessions (I also have cygwin and coLinux - the Gentoo version of course for maximum time wastage) I can't think of anything to do with it.
Here's one nobody's ever heard of: colorForth. It's... different. I boot it sometimes when I'm feeling whimsical.
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Anonymous2006-02-09 8:02
Hurd isn't an OS, it's a failed attempt at a microkernel.
Technically, linux isn't an OS either. Don't be pedantic.
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Anonymous2006-02-09 8:50
>>11
What I mean is whether you're running GNU/Hurd or GNU/Linux the user experience should still be the same because it's GNU either way. But it isn't, because Hurd doesn't work. It's been failing to work for about 20 years now.